(NB: It might be necessary for the reader to crosscheck, research or just google some keywords, especially in religion, so as to be able to appraise this condensed presentation. A fundamentalist stance might be a hindrance. This paper does not in any way intend to ridicule your beliefs, it only seeks to elucidate them from the African perspective)
(NB: It might be necessary for the reader to crosscheck, research or just google some keywords, especially in religion, so as to be able to appraise this condensed presentation. A fundamentalist stance might be a hindrance. This paper does not in any way intend to ridicule your beliefs, it only seeks to elucidate them from the African perspective)
Nigeria is so overwhelmed with tons of problems that it could be quite exasperating, trying to ascertain exactly where to apply the lever! However, through systematic analysis, it is possible to lift the veil of confusion and get to the crux of the matter.
Needless to recycle the litany of woes that confront the masses daily, because we all know them too well! The question then is: what is the cause of the appalling situation? Why is it so? Why is Nigeria at 50 not able to provide the most basic amenities for her populace? Why are the masses suffering in the midst of plenty? Why are we not patriotic? Why is there so much corruption? Why is the nation decaying? Why has the self-acclaimed `Giant of Africa´ become a dwarf? Is there something endemically wrong with Nigerians?
Everyone will be quick to assert that the trouble with Nigeria is , corruption aside, the leadership! Truly so! You don´t have to be a Chinua Achebe to know that. But then again, the nagging question is : why do we have such a terrible leadership? Why? Why don´t we have patriotic leaders, whose only interest is to serve Nigeria selflessly, instead of plundering our treasury endlessly? (Naturally, people like Babangida would tell you it´s the followership!). Leadership or followership, why are we the way we are? What is the REAL cause of our troubles?
A careful analysis could lead one to come up with what might be termed the ALIEN FACTOR and its attendants. Let me explain:
The country itself is an alien creation of the racist British in 1914. And before that, in 1884 in Berlin, white folks cut up Africa like a piece of cake, dividing the spoils among themselves, so as to colonise, exploit and oppress us. And before that, these same imperialists, like their Arab predecessors, did a Holocaust on us, which they romantically call the Slave Trade. Prior to that, the Romans were in charge in Ancient Egypt.. And before the Romans, the Macedonians under Alexander the Great (333BCE) called the shots. And long before that, around 525BCE, the Persians invaded us in North Africa. Since then, we have steadily declined in global power, while Europeans and Arabs have literally controlled our lives!
If you add the Jihad , the brutal Islamization by the Arabs, after the imposed Christianity of Emperor Constantine and Theodosius, then you will understand the transformation that has taken place since then! The white `KRSTians´ conveniently changed the Black Trinity to the white Trinity of God the Father, God the Son, and God, the Holy Ghost. Osiris became God the Father, Horus Jesus, Isis Mary or the Holy Ghost. (Incidentally, this author made a photo of a BLACK HORUS ON THE CROSS in a white Church in Europe around Easter this year. So, the evidence is still there for all to see even TODAY!)
And millions of years before that, you find the oldest humanoids (7,3 million years versus the Kenyan `Lucy´ of 2,3 million years). The present human race, Homo Sapiens Sapiens is about 150,000 years old. And until only about 20,000 years ago, everybody on this planet was Black! White folks are actually Black people, who lost their melanin pigmentation 20,000 years ago as a result of adapting to the extreme cold climate (Cro-Magnon), who then after further migration became Asians 15,000.years ago. There you see the brotherhood of mankind! But WE are the oldest `race´!
What does all that mean? It simply means that Africa is the cradle of mankind . And the first great civilisation of the world, the so-called Ancient Egypt , the Pharaohs (except the last few AFTER the nest was already built) were Black! Yes, black like you and me! That means we brought religion, science, philosophy , music, art, writing, technology , the first Holy Book, the first Saviour, everything to the world. The Ten Commandments were culled from the 42 Confessions of Maat! We built the Pyramids in Ancient Egypt. The Greeks (Plato, Aristotle, Socrates & Co.) falsely claim OUR philosophy.
There is NOTHING like a Pythagoras Theorem! It is an African Theorem, again plagiarised by Pythagoras. (This writer has a copy of the ORIGINAL African version!). In short, we were the leading civilisation, when the rest of the world was steeped in barbarism..(Alhaji Aliyu Tilde, PLEASE, TAKE NOTE!! Read Cheikh Anta Diop, Bernal, Herodotus, Davidson, Massey, George, Plutarch, etc!). Others came from far and wide to Alexandria to learn from us, right up to 1700 years ago. Sounds like a long time!
Now, after a quick plunge into history, let´s fast-forward to 2010! How relevant is the past to today´s events in Africa, especially in Nigeria? How does that answer the questions raisesd in the preamble?
Let´s see:
LOSS OF IDENTITY: What´s the name of our present President? Goodluck Jonathan!!! You have the Abubakars and the Princewills. Now, you may think it´s just a name! Fela Kuti would call it “Colonial Mentality“. He therefore changed his name from RANSOME-KUTI to ANIKULAPO-KUTI. Of course, you can also easily cite Nigerians with ethnic names, who have no sense of Black identity at all!. Yes, but the bottomline is we have all been brainwashed and conditioned over the years to give more allegiance to our alien detractors.
We have lost our identity, our history has been falsified, our heritage usurped by the colonialists and we have been imbued with an inferiority complex, so much so that many of us, including the so-called educated elite, are clamoring for our enemies to come back and recolonise us! Are you then surprised that our treasury plunderers run to Dubai, Saudi Arabia, London, and elsewhere to store their loot? Are you then surprised that our people are more loyal to our detractors than to our own country? We know more about European and Arabian history than our own. We know about the Jewish/European Bible and Arabian Koran inside out. But most of us have never heard of nor read the original African “Bible“, “The Coming Forth of Night And Day“, also wrongly called “The Egyptian Book of the Dead“, which is about 20,000 years older than these other Holy Books!.
RELIGION: Since we have been forcefully christianized and islamized thousands of years ago, our enemies have always played the game of ´DIVIDE and RULE´, to set us up against our own brothers and sisters! Religious differences , ethnic differences are brutally exploited. If only we knew! Please, don´t take my word for it! Check out WILLIE LYNCH!! My Arabian Allah is better than your Jewish/Roman God or vice-versa! In Islam, for instance, there are some Suras in their Koran that surpass my understanding of peace and love amongst all mankind:!
“Take not the Jews and Christians for friends ... slay the infidels wherever ye find them“ .
“Fight against those who ... believe not in Allah nor the Last Day” (Sura 5:51; 9:5,29,41).“
“If you do not fight, He will punish you severely, and put others in your place” Sura 9:39
“…Allah will send His punishment from Himself or by our hands.” 9:52 “…
:“Believers! wage war against such of the infidels as are your neighbours,
and let them find you rigorous: and know that God is with those who fear him.” Sura 9:123
“. . . kill the pagans wherever you may find them . . .“Fight them and Allah will punish them by your hands, cover them with shame, help you to victory over them, heal the breasts of the Believers. “ Sura 9:14
“No Muslim should be killed for killing a Kafir (infidel).”(Hadith vol. 9:50)
.“ . The unbelievers are your sworn enemies . . . Seek out your enemies relentlessly “. . . .
“You shall not plead for traitors . . . Allah does not love the treacherous or the sinful.“
(Dawood, Koran, pp. 367-68.)
Now, imagine reciting such passages on a daily basis! Would that enhance peace in Jos or Kano or Darfur or anywhere else? Yes! If and only if all the inhabitants are Muslims! They call us “INFIDELS“, although WE TAUGHT THEM RELIGION!
It is not as if the Christians with their Inquisition and Crusades were any better! Now, against this background, it is easy to see that a Muslim-Jewish-Christian-Osirian mix is a catastrophe waiting to happen!
Because they were oppressed by Ramses II, the Jews (and by extension the Christians) revenged by inserting into their concocted Old Testament that we are cursed by THEIR God, yet we continue to worship THEIR God of Israel. (Now you understand where that alleged HAM curse comes from!). But our African God is really mighty and wry! He somehow found a way to make all of them-Jews, Christians and Muslims alike- adore Him and proclaim AMEN! (AMEN was one of the names we gave to our African God in Ancient Egypt!)
HAUSA-FULANI BORN-TO-RULE- MENTALITY could be alluded to their Islamic religion. Arabs still call Africans “ABD“, meaning SLAVE! Our Muslim brothers and sisters in the North may have picked up this demeaning attitude from Uthman Dan Fodio. Ironically, our people forget that they are black too! So, they
continue to worship the Allah of the Arabs, thinking they are superior to the rest of us!
CORRUPTION: Back in the days, an African king, who betrayed the trust of his people felt so much shame, that he actually committed suicide! Today, shame has become an elusive commodity. Only the Jengedes get their hands Sharia-compatibly sliced off for stealing a cow, and the big rogues, who steal by the billions and trillions, go scot free, free to come back and wreak even more havoc. Since the arrival of the Whites and the Arabs, Blacks have known no peace. The British actually introduced rigging and corruption into our very strict moral society of the past, which has now been largely eroded. Corruption has become institutionalised, thanks to the Minna Medusa , an evil agent of our alien enemies, still doing his masters´ bidding..
ETHNICISM: Some call it `tribalism`..... When one hears the Hausas, Fulanis , the Igbos , the Yorubas, and all the other ethnic groups blaming one another for the calamities of the country, the discerning mind smiles! They see the puppets, but they don´t see the puppeteers! Again, ask Willie Lynch! Ask the British! Ask the West. Ask the Arabs. When you are in the diaspora, your identity is your BLACKNESS! No one really gives a hoot, where you come from. Seen from a distance, your colour defines you. What you get is the ´Black treatment´. Not Hausa, not Ibo, not Ijaw, nada!
DOCILITY....... or waiting for the Christian God or the Arab Allah to solve our problems. Apparently, there´s a tug of war between the Christian God and the Muslim Allah. Where two alien elephants fight, it´s the local grass that suffers. We have actually suffered much more than the grass. Praying and fasting for our oppressors in the name of, figuratively speaking, these two alien elephants, only aggravates an already bad situation.
BAD LEADERSHIP.... comes from ignorance! Ignorance of our history. If our rulers to date had even just a rudimentary knowledge of our past glory, and how we fell from grace to grass, they would refuse to be used by our enemies. Did Murtala Muhammed and Tunde Idiagbon have this knowledge? Or was it just natural instinct? In any case, they were obviously on the right track. Babangida, for instance, was ostensibly a tool of our enemies. Remember his first radio broadcast to the nation, after his coup against Buhari/Idiagbon: ´ ........ WE SHALL BREAK THE DEADLOCK WITH IMF!´..... Because Buhari/Idiagbon earlier on refused to sell us to the voracious IMF and their vicious SAP programmes.
But you really can not blame the bad leaders, because they are the products of an alien indoctrination, which of course does not absolve them of their crimes! (They should all be brought to justice!). A true African would have to make a conscious effort to extricate himself from the stranglehold of our alien enemies. Africans are looked down upon all over the world, because on top of the awful situation on the continent, everyone erroneously believes that African History starts with our enslavement!
NEO-COLONIALISM: Anyone , who thinks we are an independent country, making our own decisions, is badly mistaken. Just one example: Not too long ago, Saharareporters published an article on the notorious, highly influential Lebanese, Chagourny, who called up Washington to ask what kind of Nigerian government would suit THEM!! NOT US! Here is a quote from that piece:
.“ When Abacha died in June 1998, a second State Department memo notes that Chagoury placed an in-flight call from his private plane to the U.S. embassy in Nigeria to report that he was in touch with Nigeria's Provisional Ruling Council, which would be meeting later that day to discuss a successor to Abacha. In the phone call, Chagoury asked what governmental structure would be acceptable to U.S. officials, according to the memo“.. http://www.saharareporters.com/news-page/chasing-ghosts-corrupt-abacha-regime-gilbert-chagoury-clinton-donor-and-diplomat-checkered
That´s what they also call INDIRECT RULE, which the British practiced zealously in the North during the colonial times!
Again, a knowledgeable , patriotic, selfless leader like the late Nkrumah of Ghana would fend off such malicious interference. He might have to pay the ultimate price though, like Lumumba, Sankara, Idiagbon, Murtala, Steve Biko or simply suffer like Mandela.
MILITARY DICTATORSHIP, MILITROCRACY: Most of the terrible things happening in the country today are as a direct result of the seeds sown by the bad eggs in the Military , especially the self-acclaimed evil genius. But the remote cause, as already demonstrated, is the foreign indoctrination.
So, all our troubles can be traced to the alien factor! To be more exact, it´s actually
OUR IGNORANCE OF OUR GLORIOUS PAST,
THE LOSS OF OUR TRUE IDENTITY,
FOREIGN INDOCTRINATION and
OUR UNAWARENESS OF OR AMENABILITY TO ALIEN MANIPULATION.
SOLUTIONS: Here are a few suggestions:
LONG TERM SOLUTION: Re-educate our people! Start with our common history of thousands of years ago BEFORE ``Krst“ianity and Islam, beyond the African Holocaust and colonisation of Africa. And all of a sudden, all the ethnic groups would realise we are an indivisible one! And when we are aware that we once ruled the world, we would regain confidence in ourselves and our abilities. Then, we would rise up again and fly like an eagle. As proud, revered Black people, that we once were. But is it likely that Africans return to their roots anytime soon? Will they be allowed?
SHORT TERM SOLUTION:
Organise a crash course in African History for the present rulers and aspirants to give them the necessary knowledge and self-confidence to articulate the African perspective, instead of being wilful agents of destruction at the hands of our enemies, both internal and external. But will the present crop of misrulers listen?
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IMMEDIATE SOLUTION:
1) Introduce CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR CORRUPTION, PROSECUTE ALL THE THIEVES!
CONFISCATE THEIR ASSETS AND LOOTED MONEY!
CUT DOWN THE OUTRAGEOUS SALARIES OF THE LEGISLOOTERS.
2) NATIONALISE ALL NATURAL RESOURCES !
3) CONVENE A SOVEREIGN NATIONAL CONFRENCE to PEACEFULLY split the country into at
least 2. The project “Nigeria“ , as shown above, can not work under the present circumstances. It can only work AFTER the long term solution! Since religion plays such a major role in our lives, let the areas with a predominant religion reconstitute themselves and build a new country of their liking. We can borrow a leaf from Sudan, without the bloodshed!
5) An alternative to 4) could be a CONFEDERATION. That was where the ABURI Accord of 1967 was heading to, before the Civil War: strong regions, less strong centre.
6) SACK ADOKE and WAZIRI immediately.
REPLACE THEM WITH FALANA and a RIBADU respectively.
7) POWER OF THE PEOPLE! As already advocated in my previous articles, STAND UP and FIGHT
(Parts1&2), the masses should stand up to claim their right to a decent living, as guaranteed in both the
African and UN Declaration of Human rights. FEMI FALANA and SERAP have just won a historic decision
in the ECOWAS High Court in Abuja to this effect! So, apart from the moral right, we also have a strong
legal backing! CONTINUOUS MASS PROTESTS UNTIL THE DESIRED CHANGE IS ACHIEVED.
Our country is in a pretty bad shape. Pundits have already marked their calendar: 2015. Nigeria would have broken up, albeit violently, if nothing is done now, if business continues as usual! If someone with the mindset of Babangida, Atiku, Bankole , Igbinedion or Ibori ends up in Aso Rock instead of landing in jail, if the judicial system continues to be perverted, if the plundering and pillaging of our resources continues unabated, all that would invariably enhance that possibility.
Some people think a Jerry Rawlings solution would inevitably come, a bloody revolution. And many more are waiting for their alien God /Allah to intervene. There is nothing inherently wrong with Black people. We are not cursed, maybe by OTHER people´s Gods, but definitely NOT BY OURS! We are not dumb.We have only been cut off from our true history and identity. We are lost! That´s all.
Those of us, armed with this knowledge of our glorious past, can not wait, should not wait. We should spread this information and take our destiny into our own hands. The foreign Gods, who are actually plagiarisms of our original Black God, have not served us well so far. It´s high time we went back to our roots., back to the roots of all civilisation., back to the real thing, to reclaim our human dignity, our identity and our glorious heritage. That´s where our salvation lies. And the key to that salvation is Ancient Egypt.
PS: If this article can trigger off a RATIONAL debate that can produce constructive, pragmatic SOLUTIONS to our chronic problems, my mission would have been accomplished. This is my own little, honest contribution. Maybe, YOU have much better, practicable ideas. So, let´s put on our thinking caps and rumble!
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